EP1007829B1 - Machine a dynamique gazeuse produisant une onde de pression - Google Patents

Machine a dynamique gazeuse produisant une onde de pression Download PDF

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EP1007829B1
EP1007829B1 EP98947451A EP98947451A EP1007829B1 EP 1007829 B1 EP1007829 B1 EP 1007829B1 EP 98947451 A EP98947451 A EP 98947451A EP 98947451 A EP98947451 A EP 98947451A EP 1007829 B1 EP1007829 B1 EP 1007829B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F04F—PUMPING OF FLUID BY DIRECT CONTACT OF ANOTHER FLUID OR BY USING INERTIA OF FLUID TO BE PUMPED; SIPHONS
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    • F02B33/32—Engines with pumps other than of reciprocating-piston type
    • F02B33/42—Engines with pumps other than of reciprocating-piston type with driven apparatus for immediate conversion of combustion gas pressure into pressure of fresh charge, e.g. with cell-type pressure exchangers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
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    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
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    • F01N3/2006—Periodically heating or cooling catalytic reactors, e.g. at cold starting or overheating
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
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    • F01N3/22—Control of additional air supply only, e.g. using by-passes or variable air pump drives
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
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  • the present invention refers to a gas-dynamic pressure wave machine according to the preamble of independent claim 1.
  • WO 97/20134 which is the base of the preamble of claim 1, discloses a device for supercharging the charge air of an internal combustion engine by means of a multi-cycle pressure wave machine having a compression slide valve where the opening and the closing edges of the inlet and the outlet opening of the exhaust front housing and the charge air front housing are mutually offset in the direction of rotation of the cell rotor at a predetermined rotation speed of the cell rotor and a exhaust gas temperature.
  • the pressure wave machine having a compression slide valve it is suggested to rotate the exhaust front housing. Since this is the high temperature part of the pressure wave machine, a device for the rotation of the exhaust front housing acting on this portion is disadvantageous and causes in fact unsolvable sealing problems. Furthermore, it is not precised in the schematic Figure referring to the rotation how to effectuate such a construction.
  • a gas-dynamic pressure wave machine comprising four channels and no additional control systems such as pockets, which is used in order to supercharge an internal combustion engine
  • the pressure wave process can only be adjusted for a single operating speed of the internal combustion engine, i.e. the so-called design point of the pressure wave machine.
  • the use of pockets in the housing walls allows a less tuning-sensitive design of the pressure wave machine and a significant extension of its load, speed, and volume range.
  • the disadvantage of this method is that in the range of untuned performance, the pressure wave process is diverted to secondary processes which cannot yield optimum efficiency. The result is an increase of the losses caused by such secondary processes in the pockets, e.g. inflowing and outflowing gases and the production of pressure and expansion waves by the pockets.
  • the transition from the so-called primary process, also called compression pocket process, to the principal process, i.e. the tuned process, causes disturbances in the pressure wave process which cause scavenging disruptions and thus ranges of increased recirculation of exhaust gas into the charge air.
  • an inlet leading to the gas pocket either in the form of a milled sill or of a controlled inlet as disclosed in the above-mentioned document, must be provided, which however produces further losses due to a diversion of high pressure energy into the low pressure process.
  • the mutual alignment of the openings of the two high-pressure channels i.e. of the high pressure exhaust channel and of the high pressure charge air channel, is an important regulating variable which can be influenced by the gas pocket, inter alia.
  • the width of the openings of the low pressure channels is designed for higher engine speeds, i.e. as wide as possible, while the openings of the high pressure channels are as narrow as possible.
  • this edge geometry i.e. wide low pressure channels and narrow high pressure channels, becomes problematic.
  • the charging efficiency of a pressure wave machine in the range of lower to medium engine speeds, temperatures, and flow rates of the internal combustion engine is improved.
  • the axial clearances between the housings and the rotor greatly influence the efficiency of the pressure wave machine.
  • the gap losses will increase, and if the play is too small, it is possible that the rotor will graze against the housings.
  • the parts may be manufactured from a low-expansion steel alloy. In this case, however, a relatively large clearance must be provided in the cold state, which is disadvantageous in that condition, besides the need for expensive special alloys.
  • US-A-2 800 120 discloses a pressure wave supercharger having a water-cooled end plate in which the rotor is journalled on the gas side. However, neither the air side nor the external surface are cooled by this cooling system.
  • a single pressure wave cycle is described and represented in the developed views while Figs. 5 - 7 show a two-cycle machine.
  • the invention is independent from the number of pressure wave cycles, and it may be applied to single-cycle or to two or multiple cycle pressure wave machines. Since a respective opening and a respective pocket is associated to each cycle and since most pressure wave machines comprise two or three cycles, the description mostly refers to two openings resp. two cycles although the same would apply to a single cycle resp. opening.
  • Fig. 1 shows a gas-dynamic pressure wave machine 2 of the prior art which is connected to an internal combustion engine 1 by exhaust manifold 22 and further includes high pressure exhaust channel 3, low pressure exhaust channel 4, said channels being comprised in a gas housing 5, rocor 6 with external casing 7, fresh air inlet 8 with air filter 9, and the following low pressure fresh air inlet channel 14.
  • high pressure charge air channel 10 is illustrated which communicates with charge air passage 11, the latter being connected via charge air cooler 12 to engine 1 by input air manifold 13.
  • Low pressure fresh air inlet channel 14 and high pressure charge air channel 10 are contained in an air housing 15.
  • the figure further illustrates rotor bearing 16 as well as rotor drive 17.
  • Fig. 2 shows a developed view of the rotor of a pressure wave machine which approximately corresponds to the embodiment of Fig. 1 where only one cycle is illustrated.
  • Identical elements are designated by the same reference numerals, i.e. internal combustion engine 1, gas-dynamic pressure wave machine 2, high pressure exhaust channel 3 and low pressure exhaust channel 4 including scavenging air S, rotor 6 with individual cells 18, fresh air inlet 8 resp. low pressure fresh air inlet channel 14, high pressure charge air channel 10 which communicates with charge air passage 11 and leads to internal combustion engine 1.
  • the process can only be adjusted to a single operating speed of the internal combustion engine if the four channels are used without any additional regulating devices. In this context, this is called the design point of the pressure wave machine.
  • the use of pockets in the housing wall allows a more tuning-insensitive design of the pressure wave machine and thus an important expansion of its load, speed, and volume range.
  • different pockets have been milled into the housing wall, i.e., as shown in Fig. 2, a compression pocket 19, an expansion pocket 20, and a gas pocket 21 whose applications are well known to those skilled in the art.
  • a disadvantage in the application of such pockets is that in the range of untuned performance, the pressure wave process is diverted to secondary processes which never yield optimum efficiency.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate a gas-dynamic pressure wave machine according to the invention which comprises a number of improvements in order to essentially increase the overall efficiency.
  • Pressure wave machine 30 is connected to the schematically illustrated internal combustion engine by high pressure exhaust channel 31 and high pressure charge air channel 32.
  • Gas housing 34 further comprises low pressure exhaust channel 35, and this figure shows that the two channels, i.e. the high pressure exhaust channel and the low pressure exhaust channel, enter the gas housing on the rotor side in the form of sector-shaped openings 36A and 37A having opening edges 36 and 37, respectively, see also Figs. 5 and 6.
  • rotor 40 with its cells 41, the rotor being arranged in an casing 42 and driven e.g. by means of a belt drive 43.
  • the opening edges 54 of high pressure charge air channel 32 i.e. the openings communicating with the rotor cells, are adjusted either by a rotation of the air housing with respect to the stationary rotor and the gas housing, or in a solution not corresponding to the current invention of the high pressure charge air channel only.
  • the result is that the opening edges of the two high pressure channels can always be mutually adjusted in such a manner that the primary wave fulfills the above-mentioned condition at any point of the performance range of the internal combustion engine.
  • Fig. 5 shows a front view of the rotor side of gas housing 34 illustrating the two high pressure exhaust channel openings 36A, each comprising an opening edge 36, and the two low pressure exhaust channel openings 37A, each comprising an opening edge 37, and the two gas pockets 21.
  • the gas housing is fixed to the rotor casing, i.e. stationary.
  • Fig. 6 shows a front view of the rotor side of air housing 39 illustrating the two high pressure charge air channel openings 54A, each comprising an opening edge 54, and the two low pressure exhaust channel openings 55A, each comprising an opening edge 55. Furthermore, compression pockets 19 and expansion pockets 20 are illustrated.
  • the air housing is rotatable with respect to the rotor resp. the gas housing, the angle of rotation being comprised between 0 and 20°.
  • Fig. 7 illustrates another solution, not corresponding to the current invention, allowing to act upon the opening edges of one of the high pressure channels, i.e. the high pressure charge air channel in the present case.
  • the influence of high temperatures is not crucial in this solution.
  • a double sector diaphragm 54B is illustrated which allows a variation of the opening width of the two openings of the high pressure charge air channel and thus of their alignment to the openings of the high pressure exhaust channel, as indicated by arrow 56. It is understood that the number of diaphragms depends on the number of cycles.
  • the diaphragms may be provided on the high pressure exhaust channel instead of the high pressure charge air channel as the influence of the temperature is not so important in this case.
  • the pressure wave machine is optimally tuned to the point specified by the manufacturer of the internal combustion engine, usually at the nominal speed of the motor, by means of known methods such as characteristics methods and design calculations while no pockets are involved or one, two, or all three pockets are used.
  • FIGs. 3 and 4 schematically indicate that air housing 39 may be adjustably mounted by means of a rotatable bearing 40.
  • the rotatable bearing is mounted on top of rotor casing 42 while two inner bearing rings 56 are fastened to the casing and two outer bearing rings 57 are fastened to air housing 39 and enclosed in a bearing housing 58.
  • the housing may be rotated e.g. electrically by means of a servo motor, or by pneumatic, mechanical or hydraulic means.
  • each point of the performance field of the internal combustion engine is calculated by means which are known per se and converted into suitable control commands for the rotation of the housing by an appropriate electronic control system. The same procedures can be applied if a rotation of the high pressure charge air channel is effected.
  • the rotor of the pressure wave machine may be driven proportionally by means of a belt drive, as illustrated, or non-proportionally e.g. by electric, pneumatic or hydraulic means.
  • the rotor of the pressure wave machine may also be operated as a free-wheeling rotor without an external drive.
  • the rotation of the housing must be adaptable to the speed variations of the machine by a suitable method, e.g. by performance field or speed control, while the speed of the rotor may be free or upwardly limited and partially controlled by a brake control. The same procedures can be applied if a rotation of the high pressure charge air channel is effected.
  • the edge geometry i.e. the opening width of the high pressure and the low pressure channels is designed so as to obtain a good efficiency over the entire speed range of the internal combustion engine. Therefore, even in the case of narrow total opening angles of the high pressure channels below 45°, the total opening width of the opening edges of the low pressure channels is designed to be as large as possible in order to obtain a sufficient rotor scavenging at higher motor speeds and thus to prevent an excessive increase of the charge air temperatures.
  • the overall ratio of the opening width of the high pressure channels to the opening width of the low pressure channels is greater than 1 : 3.5.
  • expansion wave W5 which is created by the pressure differential between the pressure existing in the rotor before the fresh air is admitted and the lower pressure in the low pressure exhaust channel itself, arrives at the centre of the low pressure exhaust channel approximately, where it hinders the outflow.
  • Pressure wave W6 which results from the reflection of the expansion wave at the low pressure exhaust channel opening, travels back to the second third of the fresh air inlet opening and thereby strongly hinders the inflow. The result is a negative effect both on the scavenging action and on the pressure in the rotor at the time when the low pressure openings are closed.
  • the pressure also called precompression in the following, strongly drops and is insufficient for a further compression of the charge air at the time when the high pressure exhaust channel opens.
  • the low pressure fresh air inlet channel in order to improve the charging pressure at higher speeds, must close much later than the low pressure exhaust channel so that there is still a certain precompression due to the stemming of the inflowing fresh air.
  • this measure is counteractive at a low energy level, i.e. mainly at low speeds, temperatures, and flow rates, where the scavenging is strongly hindered by the premature closure of the exhaust outlet opening and a range of high recirculation has thus to be accepted.
  • the opening edges are sector-shaped, their opening width is generally defined by an angle. In this context, independently of the number of cycles, reference is made to the total opening width.
  • the ratio of the total opening width of the opening edges of the high pressure channels and all opening edges of the low pressure channels is greater than 1 : 3.25, i.e. if the total opening width of the opening edges of the high pressure channels amounts to e.g. 48°, all opening edges of the low pressure channels have an opening width of 156° or more.
  • the angular difference between the closing edge of the low pressure exhaust channel and the closing edge of the low pressure fresh air inlet channel may be reduced to such an extent that a hindrance of the scavenging action is excluded without losses in precompression.
  • the corresponding calculations can be effected according to known calculating methods for pressure wave machines.
  • the pressure wave machine of the invention comprises another improvement in efficiency due to a water cooling system which is provided at least partially in the air housing and on the rotor casing while it is understood that the cooling is only useful on the air side.
  • the summarily indicated water cooling 44 is disposed in air housing 39 near the rotor bearing and, according to the present example, water cooling 45 is provided in bearing housing 58.
  • a pressure wave machine according to the prior art can be equipped with an approximately equal arrangement.
  • the cooling water circuit may e.g. be connected to the motor cooling circuit of the internal combustion engine, or a separate cooling circuit or separate cooling circuits may be provided.
  • This water cooling mainly allows an effective cooling of the rotor bearing, and the deviation of a separate air stream from the fresh air with the accompanying drawbacks is no longer necessary.
  • the water cooling allows a constant clearance between the rotor and the casing and thus an increased efficiency and independence from expensive materials for the rotor and the casing.
  • the water cooling offers an essential increase in efficiency in otherwise known gas-dynamic pressure wave machines, and an even greater one if it is combined with one or more of the improvement(s) of the pressure wave machine as described above.
  • the pressure wave machine In order to yield high charging pressures and a high efficiency, the pressure wave machine according to the prior art strongly depends on the filling degree. In the case of a low flow rate of the internal combustion engine, the filling degree of the rotor of the pressure wave machine will decrease and therefore also the charging pressure. In fact, in this area of the performance field, the machine is too big. If the flow rate of the internal combustion engine is high, the degree of filling strongly increases, and the compression efficiency deteriorates. In this area of the performance field, the pressure wave machine is too small.
  • the exhaust manifold volume used with pressure wave machines according to the prior art in order to damp the motor pulsations creates disadvantages.
  • the pressure wave machine represents an open system, which means that the exhaust part and the fresh air part are directly connected by the rotor. However, this also means that the motor pressure pulsations are transmitted from the exhaust high pressure section to the fresh air high pressure section.
  • FIGs. 3 and 4 illustrate the connecting line 46 which leads from the high pressure charge air channel to the high pressure exhaust channel.
  • the positive pressure shocks in the high pressure charge air channel are thereby transmitted to the high pressure exhaust channel.
  • the connection comprises a nonreturn valve 47 which may be provided with an electronic control.
  • the nonreturn valve acts as a regulation in the sense that only those pressure shocks are transmitted whose energetic level is higher than the momentary pressure in the high pressure exhaust channel. In this manner, mainly the negative pressure pulses are emphasized, i.e.
  • the pressure wave machine is strongly dependent on the filling degree.
  • the presence of a connection allows the feedback of charge air to the high pressure exhaust side of the pressure wave machine and thus an increase of the mass flow of the machine and thereby an increase of the filling degree, which results in a significant pressure increase.
  • An additional regulation of the feedback amount of high pressure charge air by means of the regulated nonreturn valve may thus be used as a charging pressure regulation in general and as an additional power regulation in the case of a spark ignition engine. In other words, this means that in order to improve the compression efficiency at higher motor flow rates, the pressure wave machine may be designed somewhat larger without a loss of charging pressure at lower motor flow rates.
  • This may also be obtained e.g. by a regulation of the cross-sectional area of the connecting passage by means of a suitable known device such as the controlled nonreturn valve or an additional device for the regulation of the cross-sectional area.
  • a suitable known device such as the controlled nonreturn valve or an additional device for the regulation of the cross-sectional area. This is especially effective in the lower to medium speed, temperature, and load range of the internal combustion engine.
  • connection between the fresh air and the exhaust part allows a considerable improvement in efficiency in otherwise known pressure wave machines, but it is particularly effective in combination with one or more of the previously mentioned and described measure(s) for the improvement of the efficiency.
  • Figs. 8 to 11A refer to another aspect of the pressure wave machine, i.e. to the action upon the high pressure exhaust flow.
  • Fig. 8 shows a high pressure exhaust channel which does not have means in order to influence the high pressure exhaust flow.
  • Rotor 6 with its cells 18 is represented in a developed view, gas housing 24, high pressure exhaust channel 3 and low pressure exhaust channel 4 being further illustrated.
  • Fig. 9 shows gas pocket 21 as it is e.g. provided according to CH-A-681 738 which has been mentioned in the introduction.
  • This gas pocket as well as the necessarily existing web 21A between the high pressure exhaust channel and the gas pocket creates additional losses, especially at low to medium speeds, temperatures and flow rates where a blow-off is normally unnecessary.
  • Figs. 10 and 10A show a developed view of rotor 40 with its cells 41 while gas housing 34 comprises, in contrast to the gas pocket of Fig. 9, a recess 48 which can be modified by a slide valve 49 as indicated by arrow 50.
  • slide valve 49 is entirely engaged in the direction of the arrow, so that the high pressure exhaust channel is enlarged without the presence of a web.
  • the slide valve may be displaced so as to enlarge the high pressure channel in such a manner that the pressure drops'to such a level that the charging pressure produced in the pressure wave process decreases to the desired level.
  • Figs. 11 and 11A show an alternative embodiment of the slide valve in the form of a swinging element 51 which is hinged on an articulation 52 and is actuated by a similar electronic control allowing an enlargement 53 of the high pressure channel.
  • this device allows an important improvement of the scavenging process through the deviation from the high pressure exhaust to the low pressure process and thus a significant improvement in efficiency.
  • this method can also be used as a power regulation through a regulation of the desired charging pressure by suitable measures which are known per se .
  • This measure i.e. the enlargement of the high pressure exhaust channel and the prevention of gas pockets, allows an essential improvement in efficiency even in pressure wave machines which are otherwise identical to those of the prior art, but as all previously described improvements, it is particularly effective in combination with one or more of the disclosed improvement(s).
  • Pressure wave machine 30 is connected to internal combustion engine 60, e.g. a spark ignition engine, by means of high pressure exhaust channel 31 and high pressure charge air channel 32. Furthermore, the pressure wave machine comprises the two low pressure channels 35 and 38, and air filter 9, charge air cooler 12, a throttle 61 as well as motor output 43 are illustrated.
  • internal combustion engine 60 e.g. a spark ignition engine
  • a regulated three-way catalyst 62 comprising a lambda probe 63 is disposed between the outlet of the engine and the high pressure exhaust channel.
  • a heating device 64 in the form of a burner comprising a fuel supply 65 and an air supply 66 is interposed between the three-way catalyst and the high pressure exhaust channel.
  • Numeral 67 designates a temperature probe. At this point, the heating device acts both on the catalyst and on the pressure wave machine and thus provides an improvement of the cold start properties of both aggregates.
  • another catalyst is provided between the low pressure exhaust channel and exhaust pipe 68, i.e. an oxidation catalyst.
  • the use of a heating device acting upon the high pressure exhaust channel allows to prevent that the pressure wave supercharger runs at an insufficient energy level during cold start and thus makes use of the gas pocket or necessitates an enlargement of the high pressure exhaust channel. Accordingly, the use of the heating device reduces or entirely prevents a flow towards the gas pockets, and the charging pressure is built up substantially faster.
  • the closure of the gas pockets allows to prevent that a part of the heating energy is blown off unused.
  • a system without three-way catalysts e.g. for a diesel engine, which may only comprise the mentioned oxidation catalyst at a point upstream or downstream of the pressure wave machine.
  • the heating device already offers an improvement in a pressure wave machine provided with a high pressure exhaust channel enlarging device, and a greater one if it is applied to a pressure wave machine including one or more of the preceding improvements as well as one or two catalysts or no one.

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  1. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique, destinée à amener l'air de charge à un moteur à combustion interne, comprenant un rotor (6, 40) avec des cellules (18, 41), un canal d'admission d'air frais à basse pression (14, 38), un canal d'air de charge à haute pression (10, 32) conduisant au moteur à combustion interne (1, 33), un canal d'échappement à haute pression (3, 31) en provenance du moteur à combustion interne et un canal d'échappement à basse pression (4, 35), le canal d'échappement à basse pression (4, 35) et le canal d'échappement à haute pression (3, 31) étant aménagés dans un carter à gaz (5, 34) et le canal d'amenée d'air frais à basse pression (14, 38) et le canal d'air de charge à haute pression (10, 32) étant aménagés dans un carter à air (15, 39), et les quatre canaux communiquant chacun avec le rotor par l'intermédiaire d'ouvertures en forme de secteurs (36A, 37A; 54A, 55A) aménagées dans le carter à gaz resp. le carter à air alors que les ouvertures en forme de secteurs (36A, 37A ou 54A, 55A) de l'un des deux canaux à haute pression sont capables d'être alignées sur les autres ouvertures en forme de secteur (54A, 55A ou 36A, 37A) de l'autre canal à haute pression afin d'ajuster le processus sur le diagramme caractéristique entier du moteur à combustion interne (33), caractérisée en ce que le carter à air (39) comprenant les ouvertures (54A, 55A) du canal d'air de charge à haute pression est rotatif par rapport au rotor stationnaire (40) et aux ouvertures (36A, 37A) du canal d'échappement à haute pression, le carter à air étant monté sur l'enveloppe (42) du rotor au moyen d'un palier rotatif (56, 57).
  2. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le rapport entre la largeur d'ouverture totale des arêtes (36; 54) des canaux à haute pression (31, 32) et la largeur d'ouverture totale des arêtes (37; 55) des canaux à basse pression (35, 38) est égal ou inférieur à 1 : 3,25 et la largeur d'ouverture totale des canaux à haute pression s'élève à 45° au maximum.
  3. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le carter à air (39) rotatif est rotatif au moyen d'un servomoteur ou par des moyens pneumatiques, mécaniques ou hydrauliques.
  4. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que deux bagues de roulement intérieures (56) sont fixées à l'enveloppe (42) du rotor et deux bagues de roulement extérieures (57) sont fixées à un logement de palier (58) monté sur le carter à air.
  5. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que le rotor est sous forme d'un rotor à roue libre sans entraínement externe et pourvu ou non d'un frein s'opposant à-des vitesses plus élevées, ou d'une commande partielle.
  6. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que la différence angulaire entre les arêtes d'ouverture (37) du canal d'échappement à basse pression (35) et les arêtes d'ouverture (55) du canal d'admission d'air frais à basse pression (38) est si petite que l'effet de balayage n'en est pas affecté.
  7. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend des poches à gaz (21) et/ou des poches à compression (19) et/ou des poches à expansion (20).
  8. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisée en ce que le carter à air (39) et/ou l'enveloppe (42) du rotor sont munis d'un système de refroidissement à l'eau (44, 45).
  9. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 8, caractérisée en ce que le système de refroidissement à l'eau est alimenté par le circuit de refroidissement à l'eau du moteur à combustion interne.
  10. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 8, caractérisée en ce que le système de refroidissement à l'eau est alimenté par un circuit d'eau de refroidissement séparé.
  11. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 8 à 10, caractérisée en ce que le système de refroidissement (45) de l'enveloppe est agencé dans le logement de palier (58) monté sur le carter à air.
  12. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 1 à 11, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend en outre une connexion (46) entre le canal d'air de charge à haute pression (32) et le canal d'échappement à haute pression (31).
  13. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 12, caractérisée en ce que la connexion comporte un clapet de non-retour (47) afin d'éviter l'introduction de gaz d'échappement dans l'air de charge.
  14. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 1 à 13, caractérisée en ce que le canal des gaz d'échappement à haute pression (31) est élargi du côté du rotor et comporte des moyens (49, 51) permettant de varier ledit élargissement.
  15. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 14, caractérisée en ce que lesdits moyens comprennent un tiroir (49) réglé.
  16. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 14, caractérisée en ce que lesdits moyens comprennent un tiroir orientable (51).
  17. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 1 à 16, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend un dispositif de chauffage (64) agissant sur le canal d'échappement à haute pression (31).
  18. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 17, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif de chauffage est un brûleur comprenant une amenée d'air et une amenée de combustible, ou un dispositif de chauffage électrique.
  19. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon l'une des revendications 1 à 18, connectée à un moteur à allumage par étincelle, caractérisée en ce qu'un catalyseur à trois voies (62) est disposé entre l'échappement du moteur et le canal d'échappement à haute pression de la machine à ondes de pression.
  20. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 19, caractérisée en ce qu'un convertisseur catalytique à oxydation (69) est connecté entre le canal d'échappement à basse pression (35) et l'échappement (68) de la machine à ondes de pression.
  21. Machine à ondes de pression gazodynamique selon la revendication 19 ou 20 et la revendication 17 ou 18, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif de chauffage (64) est disposé entre le catalyseur à trois voies (62) et le canal d'échappement à haute pression (31) de la machine à ondes de pression.
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